happyforest
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She is polarizing.
I watched the documentary last night. It was decent. Not the best I've seen, but interesting. I always felt it's unfair that she is judged for being calculating and shrewd. All good business people are, and she is definitely a business. She is less "artist" than corporation. She has planned everything and has stumbled when faced with things she couldn't plan out (looking at you IMMALETYOUFINISH Kanye). I can't hate her for being ambitious. My only point of contention with her is the, IMO, fake sweetness. She is owning her gumption more and more, but I wish she'd leap frog and just admit that most of the smarts behind how she got where she is has been down to her own plans and machinations. All the fake "OMG ME?" whenever she'd win awards was so grating.
I don't think she was treated fairly when she dated what it in essence is a normal amount of people, and so what if she made songs about her experiences. Every song writer has done so since the beginning of time. She is shrewd and comes across a bit more likable to me than say, Beyonce, who is also a mad control freak architect of everything in her life, but seems so far up her own ass in snobbery as to negate her brilliance. (I love Beyonce, but she makes me eye roll so hard at times. However, she doesn't come across as thin-skinned as Taylor.) Taylor is an extremist. She over corrected from being the butt of jokes over dating too much, to only surrounding herself with friends, and that back fired too. I can see how it would all make her feel like the world was against her, because the reality is that the masses build people up just to tear them down. We see it time and again across all spectrums.
I liked when she talked about weight and how if you get too thin, then the booty is gone, so no matter what you can't win. That eating and feeling strong is important. Girls need to hear that.
I liked that Joe didn't play a huge part in the documentary. That she's keeping that kind of low key. She comes across as mature, but also quite immature in many ways. She's undeniably talented as a song writer, and watching the process of how a song is born was fascinating.
She is a privileged, middle class, white girl that is talented and has mapped what is an impressive career from beginning to now. I think her true talent is the writing. Her lyrics are really superior to Madonna's, for example. She has come across as a whiny victim many times; hopefully that behavior will lessen now that she's entering her 30s. The Only The Young song felt really flat to me, particularly considering the subject. She could have done much better. JMO.
I'm so glad Taylor came out with a political stance. No matter how you vote, getting people to actually take the action is important. So good on her for that. It's terribly sad what their family is going through, with her mother's illness. My sister has terminal cancer and the absolute nightmare horror of watching someone close to you go through cancer, its treatment and side effects, well there are really no words to express the pure horror of it.
I watched the documentary last night. It was decent. Not the best I've seen, but interesting. I always felt it's unfair that she is judged for being calculating and shrewd. All good business people are, and she is definitely a business. She is less "artist" than corporation. She has planned everything and has stumbled when faced with things she couldn't plan out (looking at you IMMALETYOUFINISH Kanye). I can't hate her for being ambitious. My only point of contention with her is the, IMO, fake sweetness. She is owning her gumption more and more, but I wish she'd leap frog and just admit that most of the smarts behind how she got where she is has been down to her own plans and machinations. All the fake "OMG ME?" whenever she'd win awards was so grating.
I don't think she was treated fairly when she dated what it in essence is a normal amount of people, and so what if she made songs about her experiences. Every song writer has done so since the beginning of time. She is shrewd and comes across a bit more likable to me than say, Beyonce, who is also a mad control freak architect of everything in her life, but seems so far up her own ass in snobbery as to negate her brilliance. (I love Beyonce, but she makes me eye roll so hard at times. However, she doesn't come across as thin-skinned as Taylor.) Taylor is an extremist. She over corrected from being the butt of jokes over dating too much, to only surrounding herself with friends, and that back fired too. I can see how it would all make her feel like the world was against her, because the reality is that the masses build people up just to tear them down. We see it time and again across all spectrums.
I liked when she talked about weight and how if you get too thin, then the booty is gone, so no matter what you can't win. That eating and feeling strong is important. Girls need to hear that.
I liked that Joe didn't play a huge part in the documentary. That she's keeping that kind of low key. She comes across as mature, but also quite immature in many ways. She's undeniably talented as a song writer, and watching the process of how a song is born was fascinating.
She is a privileged, middle class, white girl that is talented and has mapped what is an impressive career from beginning to now. I think her true talent is the writing. Her lyrics are really superior to Madonna's, for example. She has come across as a whiny victim many times; hopefully that behavior will lessen now that she's entering her 30s. The Only The Young song felt really flat to me, particularly considering the subject. She could have done much better. JMO.
I'm so glad Taylor came out with a political stance. No matter how you vote, getting people to actually take the action is important. So good on her for that. It's terribly sad what their family is going through, with her mother's illness. My sister has terminal cancer and the absolute nightmare horror of watching someone close to you go through cancer, its treatment and side effects, well there are really no words to express the pure horror of it.
(if indeed it does exist) 
it’s all so teenage-ish.
